Pith Number

pith:4MKBYKWP

pith:2017:4MKBYKWPU4LEH4MAGHUL6LLRX2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Photon thermalization via laser cooling of atoms

Chiao-Hsuan Wang, Jacob M. Taylor, J. V. Porto, M. J. Gullans, William D. Phillips

arxiv:1712.08643 v2 · 2017-12-22 · quant-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4MKBYKWPU4LEH4MAGHUL6LLRX2}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:05:14.392856Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e3141c2acfa71643f18031e8bf2d71be89f662ab8e4b22f1ca0d8fdbad13fe10

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08643 · arxiv_version: 1712.08643v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08643 · pith_short_12: 4MKBYKWPU4LE · pith_short_16: 4MKBYKWPU4LEH4MA · pith_short_8: 4MKBYKWP

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4MKBYKWPU4LEH4MAGHUL6LLRX2 \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e3141c2acfa71643f18031e8bf2d71be89f662ab8e4b22f1ca0d8fdbad13fe10

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "897605e251e363d7ab7190985cc02088b1d1f1975d102df13a6f37cf2240bbde",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-22T20:13:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cde3d39f6c62f85c330148f9bcb5c5e960184bf0a136af60c6095a0488b09f1a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08643",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}